Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 17:54:50 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Drew Morone <drew@j51.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Processes -will- -not- die! Message-ID: <199512050154.RAA06084@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Dec 95 20:12:03 EST." <199512050112.UAA12000@j51.com>
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>For some reason, some of the user apps on my system will get hung, and >won't die when somebody exits unceremoniously. I of course have to go in >and kill the process, which proceeds to suck up all of the CPU. This >seems to happen most with "pine" and "tin", but will happen with other >software as well. This is caused by 'pine' and 'tin' not handling the EIO return from a read properly. When the TTY gets disconnected, input from stdin loops continuously while ignoring the error return. (I might have this backward - it might be on the output side or both). -DG
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